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title: He put plenty of mulberry leaves with the eggs, so that the silkworm… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He put plenty of mulberry leaves with the eggs, so that the silkworms should have plenty of food when they should arrive. Who acts: Musai, silkworms. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 82

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He put plenty of mulberry leaves with the eggs, so that the silkworms should have plenty of food when they should arrive.

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**Who acts:** Musai, silkworms · **What happens:** put, have, arrive · **To what, where:** plenty

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, silkworms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:6:85
# text = He put plenty of mulberry leaves with the eggs, so that the silkworms should have plenty of food when they should arrive.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Musai | plenty of mulberry leaves |  |  |  | with the eggs | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent plenty=Goal |
| 2 | **have** | should | the silkworms | plenty of food |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 3 | **arrive** | should | silkworms *= silkworm* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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